"One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion i… - Doris Kearns Goodwin

"It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government."

It is surprising,” Roosevelt explained, “how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;